On September 17th, IBM released a new version of Maximo Asset Management for Energy Optimization to help customers tackle energy and environmental management problems both inside and outside of the data center. This new release expands the product to collect and visualize facilities energy and environmental data, tying this information to key asset management processes for a complete solution. This release expands the visualization of energy and environmental information beyond temperature to include humidity, power, and other customer visualizations. It also includes new analytics to help analyze the efficiency of air conditioning equipment and locate and visualize hot spots.

In addition to these new features, Maximo for Energy Optimization 7.1.1 includes a "lightweight" version of Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management. The included monitoring tool supports facilities equipment from a number of vendors, including Johnson Controls, Siemens, Eaton, and APC. It also includes the ability to collect data from other sources.